I'm back in the office for the first time in a week, and I am spending the day updating iPads. I purchased quite a few over the last few years for migrant summer school and am letting McDonald County borrow some for their migrant kids at the high school.
I have a lot of favorite apps for English language learning and just found a few more. This is a sample of what I have loaded on my devices.
Duolingo and Drops are both free. They have different slants and make a nice combination together.
I have been loading English for Kids from 321 speak, but recently changed to Learn English-Lingo Arcade because it seemed more fun. Both are 4.99.
OPD lets you take their first chapter for free. Free is always good and this is a great resource for older students. For those of you who are scratching your head, that stands for Oxford picture dictionary.
Peapod has a bunch of ABC apps with various themes (farm, house, play). They look babyish, but all of my newer learners liked them, just to explore. Its another way to push basic vocabulary. You can get a bundle of 10 for 14.99.
Lakeshore took all of their game shows and imported then to the iPad. I love these for working on test taking strategies. Plus, you get a good idea if they have the needed foundational skills pretty painlessly. They have several , all at 1.99.
Mindsnacks is one of the best language learning program out there. Sadly, they do not have an version to learn English. They DO have one called Kids Vocabulary which is fabulous for your intermediate and above students. It's well worth the 1.99.
The rest are FREE!!!!
There are a ton of apps from Innovative net learning. They include several called vocabulary catcher (8), jumbled sentences (8), vocabulary builder (9) and a few more. Winning words have 6 different word games, all matching. Thinglink allows you to add information to pictures, both written and spoken. Trading cards is one of several apps from International Reading Assn. that is fun. Cambridge University Press has a bunch, but my favorites are phrasal verbs machine and phrasalstein. They also have one called word fun world for younger learners. European exploration: Age of Discovery looks promising. Help with words and sentences and help with English from KKR software are both free at the moment. Pearson has three called language central for science that can be hard to get to but worth it. Look under iphone only. Worlds Worst Pet Vocabulary is terrific for older intermediate and above. Chwazi is a cute way to randomly pick people.
I have more, but must get back to it. More later!
I have a lot of favorite apps for English language learning and just found a few more. This is a sample of what I have loaded on my devices.
Duolingo and Drops are both free. They have different slants and make a nice combination together.
I have been loading English for Kids from 321 speak, but recently changed to Learn English-Lingo Arcade because it seemed more fun. Both are 4.99.
OPD lets you take their first chapter for free. Free is always good and this is a great resource for older students. For those of you who are scratching your head, that stands for Oxford picture dictionary.
Peapod has a bunch of ABC apps with various themes (farm, house, play). They look babyish, but all of my newer learners liked them, just to explore. Its another way to push basic vocabulary. You can get a bundle of 10 for 14.99.
Lakeshore took all of their game shows and imported then to the iPad. I love these for working on test taking strategies. Plus, you get a good idea if they have the needed foundational skills pretty painlessly. They have several , all at 1.99.
Mindsnacks is one of the best language learning program out there. Sadly, they do not have an version to learn English. They DO have one called Kids Vocabulary which is fabulous for your intermediate and above students. It's well worth the 1.99.
The rest are FREE!!!!
There are a ton of apps from Innovative net learning. They include several called vocabulary catcher (8), jumbled sentences (8), vocabulary builder (9) and a few more. Winning words have 6 different word games, all matching. Thinglink allows you to add information to pictures, both written and spoken. Trading cards is one of several apps from International Reading Assn. that is fun. Cambridge University Press has a bunch, but my favorites are phrasal verbs machine and phrasalstein. They also have one called word fun world for younger learners. European exploration: Age of Discovery looks promising. Help with words and sentences and help with English from KKR software are both free at the moment. Pearson has three called language central for science that can be hard to get to but worth it. Look under iphone only. Worlds Worst Pet Vocabulary is terrific for older intermediate and above. Chwazi is a cute way to randomly pick people.
I have more, but must get back to it. More later!